ArmInfo. The expected domestic political changes in Armenia and Azerbaijan are not envisaged for serious, meaningful negotiations on Karabakh. Such an opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by the head of Caucasus department of the Institute of CIS countries, military expert Vladimir Evseev.
In Armenia, in April 2018, with the end of presidential term of office of Serzh Sargsyan, the final transition to a parliamentary form of government is planned, in which the prime minister will be the main character. In Azerbaijan in 2018, the next presidential election will be held. In this light, the expert believes that the preparation by the leaders of the two countries for these elections to discuss serious scenarios for the resolution of the Karabakh problem does not allow. Evseev, in this light, suggested that during the last meeting in Geneva, Sargsyan and Aliyev discussed this issue. In this context, Evseev does not believe that the forthcoming meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will contain elements of negotiating logic. According to him, the initiators and the interested party of the Nalbandyan-Mammadyarov meeting are not the presidents of the two countries, but the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, who need to demonstrate their own control over the situation, especially on the contact line between the Artsakh and Azeri Armed Forces. -nu- On November 8, the Russian Foreign Ministry spread information about the plans of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to organize a meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia by the end of the year, taking into account the results of the meeting of the Presidents of the two countries held in Geneva on October 16.